The Developing Communicator: Pragmatics, Sense Conventions and Non-Literal Uses of Language

Project Information

DEVCOM

Grant agreement ID: 853211

DOI

10.3030/853211

Project closed

EC signature date 25 February 2020

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Norway

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Cognitive mechanisms in simile and metaphor comprehension

Author(s): Emma Krane Mathisen, Nicholas Allott, Camilo R. Ronderos
Published in: Language and Cognition, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1866-9808
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2025.10038

What young children's processing and understanding of compound words can tell us about their pragmatic development

Author(s): Claire Prendergast
Published in: Psychology of Language and Communication, Issue 29(1), 2025, ISSN 2083-8506
Publisher: University of Warsaw
DOI: 10.58734/plc-2025-0019

Novel metaphor processing in young autistic children

Author(s): Isabel Martín-González, Kristen Schroeder, Elena Castroviejo, Ingrid Lossius Falkum, Agustín Vicente
Published in: Language Development Research, Issue 5(2), 2025, Page(s) 28-66, ISSN 2771-7976
Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Library Publishing Services
DOI: 10.34842/im-g

The social dimension of mindreading: developmental evidence for the role of social categorization during utterance interpretation

Author(s): Ronderos, Camilo Rodriguez, Iversen, Rebecca, Noveck, Ira, & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius
Published in: Philosophical Transactions B, Issue 380/1932, 2025, Page(s) 20230493, ISSN 1471-2970
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0493

Decoupling literalist behavior from children’s early metaphor comprehension abilities

Author(s): Mary Beth Neff, Ingrid Lossius Falkum
Published in: Language Development Research, Issue 5(2), 2025, Page(s) 130–171, ISSN 2771-7976
Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Library Publishing Services
DOI: 10.34842/ldr2025-819

The development of non-literal uses of language: Sense conventions and pragmatic competence

Author(s): Ingrid Lossius Falkum
Published in: Journal of Pragmatics, Issue 188, 2022, Page(s) 97-107, ISSN 0378-2166
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.12.002

Accounting for the preference for literal meanings in autism spectrum conditions

Author(s): Agustín Vicente; Ingrid Lossius Falkum
Published in: Mind & Language, Issue TBS, 2021, ISSN 0268-1064
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mila.12371

That kid is a grasshopper! Metaphor development from 3 to 9 years of age

Author(s): Isabel Martín-González, Camilo R. Ronderos, Elena Castroviejo, Kristen Schroeder, Ingrid Lossius-Falkum, Agustín Vicente
Published in: Journal of Child Language, 2024, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 0305-0009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000924000187

Suppression of literal meaning in single and extended metaphors

Author(s): Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos; Ingrid Lossius Falkum
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue Volume 14, 2023, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1135129

Losing the thread: how three- and five-year-olds predict the outcome of a story when non-literal language is used to update events

Author(s): Claire Prendergast
Published in: Cogent Psychology, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2331-1908
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2024.2431422

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Straight enough: Deriving imprecise interpretations of maximum standard absolute adjectives

Author(s): Camilo Rodríguez Ronderos, Ira Noveck, Ingrid Lossius Falkum
Published in: Glossa Psycholinguistics, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 2767-0279
Publisher: California Digital Library (CDL)
DOI: 10.5070/g60111411